In this room hangs the original mirror that reflected the family life of the Cather's for so many years. Beneath it stands a marble-top table that usually held books. In the northeast corner of the room is a walnut what-not. Foremost of interest in the parlor is the old Cather family Bible with the birth and death records. In this Bible, Willa Cather changed her birth date from 1873 to 1876. The substitution can be easily detected.
"She saw everything clearly in the red light from the isinglass sides of the hard coal burner...the nickel trimmings on the stove itself, the pictures on the wall, which she thought were very beautiful, the flowers on the Brussels carpet."
-The Song of the Lark
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